The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence Louise Brangan, The Bodley Head, £22THE 10 Magdalene Laundries were the most severe form of correctional institutions in Ireland from the establishment of the Free State in 1922 to their final closure in 1996.There were also mother and baby homes for illegitimate births, and industrial schools for orphans and neglected or illegitimate children, all claiming to operate from the highest motives but overseeing a system drenched in humiliation, cruelty and abuse.

SUE TURNER is compelled by a history that shows how far a country can turn in on itself to collude with abuses of power

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